The Road to International Financial Stability: Are Key Financial Standards the Answer?

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Global Encounters: Three Themes for the International Political Economy of Development....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
The Development of Political Underdevelopment....Pages 21-40
Botswana’s Developmental State and the Politics of Legitimacy....Pages 41-62
Uganda as an African ‘Developmental State’?....Pages 63-73
The Irish State and the Celtic Tiger: A ‘Flexible Developmental State’ or a Competition State?....Pages 74-94
What’s Left of ‘State Capacity’? The Developmental State after Globalization and the East Asian Crisis....Pages 95-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
The Regional Impact of Globalization: The ‘Spatial Fix’ in Southern Textiles, 1974–1997....Pages 117-132
Contentious Development Issues and Transnational Networks....Pages 133-153
Innovations in Trade Union Strategies in Brazil....Pages 154-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Well Connected? Building Capacity for Pro-Competitive Telecommunications Regulation in Three Caribbean States....Pages 173-194
Offshore or ‘Shorn Off’? The OECD’s Harmful Tax Competition Initiative and Development in Small Island Economies....Pages 195-212
Export Processing Zones and Policy Competition for Foreign Direct Investment: The Caribbean ‘Offshore’ Development Model....Pages 213-228
Backwaters, Currents and the ‘Competitive State’ in the Caribbean: The Imperative of Public Sector Reform....Pages 229-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-276